The tool will be an essential component in future planning to assess the short and long-term impacts of rising seas and to minimize the risks to coastal communities.
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DURING THE SUMMER of 2017, the tide rose to historic heights again and again in Honolulu, higher than at any time in the 112 years that records had been kept. Philip Thompson, director of the Sea Level Center at the University of Hawaii, wanted to know why. Where did this come from? he asked. How often is this going to happen? Is this our window into the future?
What Thompson and a group of researchers discovered is that the future has arrived. The summer of 17 was a glimpse of the watery reality coming to Honolulu and other coastal communities. The study, published this June in
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